Hockey’s a horror film – no matter what you do to move on, the past keeps coming back to haunt you
If you lean back out of the daily news cycle and look at hockey’s defining modern characteristics, they all reduce to one thing – the sport won’t change.
Ten years ago, Babcock was the greatest coach in the game. No one would have seriously argued that with you. If he’d figured out how to push the Toronto Maple Leafs over the line, more than a few would’ve called him the greatest coach in history. Other sports have moved on from the my-way-or-the-highway school of motivation. Not because they are simpering or the players are grown children, but because sports business doesn’t see the athletes as entirely human.
After he’d failed in Toronto, people he’d rubbed the wrong way throughout his career swarmed him. According to the stories, Babcock was a bully who pitted players against each other. He played mind games. The only defensible thing that could be said about his behaviour was that he seemed to target stars rather than scrubs.
I will assume that when any other business hires a CEO who’s been tainted by scandal, that is discussed during the hiring process. You don’t have to tell me every ugly detail. Just convince me that your previous problem is not going to become my future one.
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